How To Open Ports in Your Router for QSee QSDR008RTC-500

You might need to forward some ports in your router when you use a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR. A port forward allows incoming connection requests from the internet to go straight to a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR.

Routers generally do not allow incoming connection requests from the internet. A port forward can overcome this limitation.

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• Your router's internal IP address.
• The internal IP address of your DVR.
• The list of the TCP and UDP ports that you need to forward.

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We have free Router Detector software to help you find your router's IP address. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

You can also follow our Find Your Router IP Address article.

The easiest way to forward your ports is to use our Network Utilities software. Network Utilities lets you manage port forwards by putting them in when you need them and also removing the ones that you no longer need which maximized network security.

Another option is to go through the process of forwarding ports one step at a time. The step-by-step process for forwarding a port is:

• Begin by logging in to your router.
• Find the port forwarding section in your router.
• Put the IP address of your DVR in the proper box in your router.
• Enter the TCP and UDP ports that you need to forward for a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR in the corresponding boxes in your router.

You probably will need to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

You can choose your router from our list to see exactly how to forward ports for a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR:

List of Routers - Customized for QSee QSDR008RTC-500

The incoming ports that need to be forwarded for a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR are:

QSee QSDR008RTC-500 - PC

• TCP: 80, 9000
• UDP:

That's all it takes to forward your ports for a QSee QSDR008RTC-500 DVR.

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